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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Benjamin L. Ball

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 23 year old farmer, he enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 20 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was not with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September but was in action with them at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of smallpox in Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA on 2 February 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3; his middle initial also as "F".

He was probably half-brother of Milton Antle, also of Company K.

Birth

c. 1839; Trimble County, KY

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1917]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26930]

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